2007 Fire Island Film
and Video
Festival Awards Announced
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The 2007
Jury Award Winners are:
- Best Feature - Finn’s
Girl (Dominique Cardona & Laurie
Colbert, (Canada, 2007, 88 min) A smart
and sexy look into the lives of Dr.
Finn Jeffries and her 11-year old daughter,
Zelly.
- Best Documentary- The
Godfather of Disco (Gene Graham,
USA, 2007, 90 min) Based on Mel Cheren’s
powerful autobiography, ‘My Life
and the Paradise Garage: Keep On Dancin,’
- Best Short Film (Male)- Float (Kareem
Mortimer, Bahamas, 2007, 34 min) A young
Caucasian Bahamian finds love and inspiration
in a complex Bahamian male.
- Best Short Film (Female) -
Incredible Dyke (Kurt Koehler & James
Edward Quinn, USA, 2007, 10 min). A
loving tribute to super heroes, 70's
television and biker chicks.
- Best Foreign Film - In the
Place of the Dead (Keith Claxton,
UK/Morocco, 2006, 13 min) US Premiere A
brief encounter in Marrakech conjures
up an ancient Arabian Demon.
- Outstanding Screenplay - Gay
Bed and Breakfast of Terror (Jaymes
Thompson, USA, 2007, 110 min)New
York Premiere What should
have been the biggest gay party weekend
of the year quickly turns into every
gay and lesbian’s worst nightmare!
The 2007
Audience Awards are:
- Best Feature - A
Four Letter Word
(Casper Andreas, USA, 2007, 87 min)
Casper Andreas and Jesse Archer (“Luke”)
collaborated to bring us this sequel
to 2004 Audience Award Winner for Best
Feature Slutty Summer
- Best Documentary- The Godfather
of Disco
(Gene Graham, USA, 2007, 90 min)
- Best Short Film (Male)- Heartland (Mark
Christopher, 2007, USA, 13 min)
- City boy returns home to his family farm
to explore his progeny and develops an
attraction to father's farmhand, an old
schoolmate.
Best Short Film (Female)
- Private Life (Abbe
Robinson, UK, 2006,
16 min)
Set in 1952,
Yorkshire, England. A secret train ride
and rendezvous with a man reveals that nothing
is quite what it seems and this lass is not
as prim as she presents.
Congratulations to all the winners and to all
the film makers that participated. The winners
for Best Feature, Finns Girl and Four
Letter Word will respectively be
the opening night and closing films for the
Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,
November 9-15, to be held at the Cinema Arts
Centre, Huntington, New York. Please check
the festival’s web site www.liglff.org for
details. The schedule for the LIGLFF will
be announced on October 9.
The Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,
Inc., is a not for profit arts organization
providing Long Islanders access to gay cinema,
a forum for the exchange of ideas, and a
venue for gay film makers to show their work. We
serve our diverse communities by producing
the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the
Fire Island Film and Video Festival and the
monthly series “Out at the Movies” through
out the year.
For press photos contact
Stephen Flynn fly81657@aol.com
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2007 Fire Island Film
and Video Festival Awards Announced
HUNTINGTON, NY
September 20, 2007—The Long Island Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival is pleased to announce the
winners of the sixth annual Fire Island
Film and Video Festival Jury and Audience Awards for
2007. The FIFVF was held in Cherry Grove, on September
12-15. The festival
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